Brief paperDecentralized control design of interconnected chains of integrators: A case study☆
Introduction
Nested saturation control, useful in a nonlinear system with a forwarding structure, is associated with chains of integrators (Arcak et al., 2001, Grognard et al., 1999, Kaliora and Astofi, 2004, Kaliora and Astofi, 2005, Marconi and Isidori, 2000, Teel, 1996). This often leads to a slow closed loop response. Indeed, its transients exhibit a time-scale separation between various “nested” controllers, which is not inherent in the nonlinear system itself. It appears that some structure, without necessarily emulating the conservativeness of these nested saturating controllers, can be achieved using linear control ideas combined with singular perturbation tools that exploit natural time scales.
Here, we show how linear control ideas with time scaling recover many properties inherent in the nested saturation design. Our design is constructive and comes with a Lyapunov function for formally stating stability and robustness. In this regard, our paper extends the work by Grognard, Sepulchre, Bastin, and Praly (1998) and Mazenc (1997) studying a single input single chain of integrators. In our approach, time scales are selected “per block of states” and not for each state component on succession. A spherical inverted pendulum is a beam attached to a horizontal plane via a universal joint that is free to move in the plane under the influence of a planar force (see Fig. 1). The pendulum in the upper space is assumed. Its modelling was given in Liu (2006); its non-local stabilization and output tracking were first explicitly solved in Liu et al., 2008a, Liu et al., 2008b respectively. We design a stabilizing controller using the proposed idea for this pendulum that achieves an arbitrarily large domain of attraction in the upper space by tuning a scaling parameter. Beside recovering many features in the nested saturating controller (Liu et al., 2008a), it exploits natural time scaling and hence is less conservative. The case study is a representative from a large class of mechanical systems that can be viewed as dynamically coupled chains of integrators. It is for this family that we propose a decentralized control strategy.
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Notation
Let a vector . For a vector , , , denotes th element of . With a polynomial , we associate a companion matrix: and denote and respectively. The methodology used here is based on standard singular perturbation tools (see Kokotović, Khalil, and O’Reilly (1986) for details) to an autonomous singularly perturbed system where , ,
Problem statement
We consider a sequence of interconnected chains of integrators where each subsystem consists of two blocks as follows Let state vectors be and and an input vector be . , and , are zero at , analytic and higher order terms with respect to in
The model
Refer to Fig. 1. Consider a spherical inverted pendulum denoted by a set of generalized coordinates in a configuration space . is a planar control signal applied to a pivot attached to the bottom of the pendulum. Unknown exogenous inputs are collected by . We review the model in Liu et al. (2008a) as follows, where , , and are given in Appendix.
Decentralized control design
The nominal dynamics of (17) with the exogenous input
Summary
A decentralized linear control scheme is proposed for certain systems possessing interconnected chains of integrators and is applied to a spherical inverted pendulum. The corresponding closed loop systems yield some arbitrarily large domains of attraction by adjusting a design parameter, which is guaranteed by the associated Lyapunov functions.
Dr. Guangyu Liu received his Ph.D. degree in dynamics and control from The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2006. He was a mechanical engineer during 1997–2001 at Dong-feng motor corporation (NISSAN), China and a researcher at a micro-fabrication lab, Australia in 2002. He is presently a researcher at NICTA, Australia. His research interests are dynamics, decision and control and various applications in both engineering and life science.
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Dr. Guangyu Liu received his Ph.D. degree in dynamics and control from The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2006. He was a mechanical engineer during 1997–2001 at Dong-feng motor corporation (NISSAN), China and a researcher at a micro-fabrication lab, Australia in 2002. He is presently a researcher at NICTA, Australia. His research interests are dynamics, decision and control and various applications in both engineering and life science.
Dr. Iven Mareels obtained his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Australian National University, Australia in 1987. He is a Professor and Dean of Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Prof. Mareels is a co-editor in chief for Systems & Control Letters, a Fellow of ATSE (Australia), IEEE (USA) and IEAust, a member of SIAM, Vice-Chair of the Asian Control Professors Association, Deputy Chair of the National Committee for Automation, Control and Instrumentation, Chair of the Australian Research Council’s panel of experts for Mathematics, Information and Communication sciences, a member of the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society IEEE and so on. He is registered as a professional engineer. His research interests are in adaptive and learning systems, nonlinear control and modeling.
Dr. Dragan Nešić is a Professor at The University of Melbourne, Australia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Australian National University, Australia in 1997. In 1997–1999, he held postdoctoral positions at University of California, Santa Barbara and two other institutions. Since 1999 he has been with The University of Melbourne. His research interests include networked control systems, discrete-time, sampled-data and continuous-time nonlinear control systems, input-to-state stability, extremum seeking control and so on. Prof. Nešić is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IEAust, a recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2003) and an Australian Professorial Fellow (2004–2009). He is an Associate Editor for the journals: Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and Control Letters and European Journal of Control.
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This paper was not presented at any IFAC meeting. This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Zongli Lin under the direction of Editor Hassan Khalil.